“When connectors are assembled incompletely or incorrectly, terminal back-outs can occur, causing end-product failure,” said John Luthy, product manager, Molex. “This can produce problems ranging from intermittent operation to complete product failure. The Micro-Fit TPA Single Row Receptacle looks to resolve these issues by reducing terminal back-out and virtually eliminating end-product failures caused by terminal back-outs.”
The reduction in terminal back-out has been made possible by ensuring proper terminal seating and providing a secondary terminal retention feature. Assemblers, for example, cannot close the TPA unless the terminal is properly seated. Also, the receptacles provide backward compatibility with existing Micro-Fit 3.0 connectors and terminals, eliminating the need for customers to make major revisions or investments in their applications and enabling running change implementation to incorporate the new TPA receptacle.
Applications include consumer and home appliances, data/computing (desktops, workstations, power supplies and UPSs) telecommunications/ networking (servers, routers and switches) and automotive/commercial vehicle (harnesses, non-sealed applications and inside devices).
Single-row, wire-to-wire and wire-to-board configurations are available immediately with 2 to 7 circuits.
